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To: thames_sider who wrote (93561)	11/4/2008 11:52:31 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 541743

The US situation is murkier than your Parliament where the whips can corral everybody into line to follow the PM's wishes when he commands. The key will be the size of the mandate Obama brings in with his own votes plus the coattails perception that Obama helped increase the Democratic majorities. The bigger the wave, the more clout Obama has. The flip side is that many new Dems will be moderates or conservatives compared to the NY and California crowd, less open to diving into an ultra-liberal agenda. My guess is that if Obama's emphasis is bipartisanship, he could do a lot to lean on his party's leaders in Congress to go along. There will certainly be an appetite in DC for new ways of doing business. The old partisan rancor is stale and smelly. Most people loathe it now, except the last diehard practitioners of the failed art.